[Humorous pictures showing damaged Chinese battleships receiving first aid and Chinese men running with sails (as from Chinese junks) on their backs and carrying rifles]

This ponchi-e sheet offers two distinct satirical scenes: anthropomorphized Chinese battleships shown receiving medical treatment for wounds sustained in naval battle, and Chinese soldiers running with junk sails strapped to their backs while carrying rifles. Both vignettes ridicule the naval and military performance of Qing forces during the First Sino-Japanese War, drawing on actual engagements such as the Battle of the Yalu River. The anthropomorphization of the battleships — depicted with bandaged hulls receiving wound dressings — transforms military defeat into comic spectacle. The second scene mocks the improvised nature of Chinese military logistics, using the traditional junk sail as a symbol of technological backwardness. Kiyochika's figures are rendered in bold outline with flat color fills suited to mass newspaper reproduction. The multi-panel format was a standard convention in Japanese ponchi-e sheets of the period.